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Indian Political Intelligence Files, 1912–1950

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Hrsg. v. Anthony J. Farrington

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Online-Service mit Zugang zu einer Sammlung von Überwachungs- und Geheimdienstakten des britischen Empire über indische Nationalisten, Organisationen und transnationale Netzwerke in der Spätphase der Kolonialzeit von den späten Vorkriegsjahren über beide Weltkriege bis kurz nach der Unabhängigkeit Indiens. Sie dokumentiert, wie der britische Staat Personen, Publikationen und Bewegungen beobachtete, die als Bedrohung für Britisch-Indien galten. Enthalten sind u.a. Überwachungsberichte, abgefangene Kommunikation, Geheimdienstzusammenfassungen, Lageeinschätzungen, Dossiers und Positionspapiere; Beiträge u. a. von MI5, MI6 und Special Branch. Abgedeckter Zeitraum: 1912–1950.

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Brill Academic Publishers

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Siehe auch:
British Colonial Policy and Intelligence Files on Asia and the Middle East, c. 1880–c. 1950

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978-90-04-19685-8
2950-5054

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10883304

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Indian Political Intelligence (IPI), an organization within the India Office in London, monitored activities aimed at undermining the British government of India. Its files, the oldest having been locked away for almost a century, were declassified in 1997. They form a unique primary source for the study of revolutionary movements in the British colonial period during an especially volatile episode in Indian history.

Background
In the early 1900s, close links were developing between growing unrest in India and the political activities of Indians domiciled in Britain. The first bombings and assassinations of British officials in India in 1905 were soon followed by the emergence of Indian revolutionary groups in London, Paris and North America. In 1908, Scotland Yard’s Special Branch received orders to undertake surveillance of Indian subversives in Britain, establishing an Indian Section in July 1909.

Indian Political Intelligence began with the deputation of Major J.A. Wallinger from the Indian Police to the India Office in London. IPI’s task was to "watch anti-British conspiracies in England and Europe, so far as they affect Indian interests". It reported to the Secretary of State for India through the India Office’s Public & Judicial Department, and to the government of India through the Intelligence Bureau of the Home Department. After 1939, the interests of IPI grew to encompass activities of German, Italian and Japanese aliens in India. Various pro-independence movements were infiltrated and monitored, among them the International Committee for India and the India League. In 1947, following the Independence of India, IPI was dissolved.

Contents
The files of IPI contain a mass of previously unavailable material on the monitoring of organizations and individuals considered a threat to British India. They include surveillance reports and intercepts from MI.5, MI.6 and Scotland Yard's Special Branch, and a large number of intelligence summaries and position papers. Although the main thrust is anti-communist, exponents of the various nationalist movements were also monitored.

IPI kept files on most of the period's best known activists and political figures – including Gandhi, as well as Subhas Chandra Bose, Jawaharlal Nehru and V.J. Patel. Their movements were recorded, their correspondence read and their publications combed through for allegedly subversive statements. In addition, there are more than eighty separate files on Indian censorship.

Characteristics

• The IPI files serve as essential source material for the study of revolutionary movements in pre-independence India – and the support such movements received from Britain, Europe, the USSR and North America. They also shed new light on the way in which these movements were perceived and evaluated in London.
• This archive contains previously classified data on political activists and various “subversive” movements.
• The files expose in great detail the operations of a secret intelligence service, documenting the main concerns of the British in the last half century of the Raj.

Provenance

After the abolition of the India Office, the files were transferred to secure custody at the India Office Records which post-1947 was successively under the British Government's Commonwealth Relations Office, Commonwealth Office, and Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In 1982, when the India Office Records were administratively transferred to the British Library, the files were recalled by the FCO. They were released into the public domain, after vetting by the FCO's Sensitivity Review Unit, and returned to the British Library's Oriental and India Office Collections in 1998.

Language

Texts are primarily in English, but some items are in Urdu or Hindi.

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